LECTURES Events This Week HISTORY OF SOCIAL SECURITY. Wachovia Securities. 3561 e. Sunrise Dr., Suite 235. William Payne, public affairs specialist with the Social Security Administration, addresses the history of medicare and social security as well as retirement benefits on Wednesday, September 18 at 7 p.m. Call 615-3000 for reservations. Free. HOW LONG SINCE THE BIG BANG. Steward Observatory. 933 N. Cherry Ave. View the night sky with help from the 21-inch telescope after Dr. Jeremy Mould, Director of NOAO at the University of Arizona, offers insight into how long we've been able to gaze up at the stars since the Big Bang occurred. The lecture and the gazing are free and take place on Monday, September 16 at 7:30 p.m. For more information call 621-5049. I'M TRYING SO HARD TO MAKE THIS RELATIONSHIP WORK. University Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. UA psychology instructor Patti Harada discusses what it takes to stop the cycle of pleading, reasoning, screaming and groveling women fall into in their attempt to get their needs met on Wednesday, September 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. Cost is $10 at the door. Call 886-6046 for details. PHOTO-ETCHED JEWELRY. Randolph Arts Center auditorium. 200 S. Alvernon Way. 791-4873. Metal artist and jewelry designer Carol Webb offers guidance in a free presentation on Friday, September 13 at 7 p.m. Call 791-4063 for details. REMEMBERING THE STEEL CITY. Center for Creative Photography. Speedway Boulevard and Olive Avenue. 621-7968. Martin Yoklic recollects about his youth and the steel mills where he and his father and uncles worked in Pittsburgh in the 60's in conjunction with the current W. Eugene Smith exhibit. Yoklic is now a UA professor of architecture. His lecture begins at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 12. Upcoming A QUEST FOR FREEDOM. UA Museum of Art. Speedway Boulevard and Olive Avenue. 621-7567. Matthew Whittaker of Arizona State University explores the modern African diaspora in conjunction with the museum's current exhibit, Liberated Voices on Thursday, September 19 at 12:15 p.m. GALLERY TALK. Center for Creative Photography. Speedway Boulevard and Olive Avenue. 621-7968. Documentary-maker and writer Sam Stephenson goes in search of W. Eugene Smith's unfinished Pittsburgh photo project of the 50's and talks about his findings on Thursday, September 19 at 5:30 p.m.